Business Travellers Against Human Trafficking
Business Travellers Against Human Trafficking refers to Hetq Online’s ongoing investigation into the trafficking of women and children from Armenia to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Some of the women go voluntarily to work in the sex trade, but are later caught in slave like conditions and forced to pay off huge debts. One of the hotels named in the report is the St George Hotel which it claims has been using Armenian prostitutes, some of whom may have been trafficked, for the last five years. Hetq claims that women from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan all meet their clients at this business hotel. It is very likely that some of these women will have been trafficked.
Meanwhile, yesterday Hetq Online published two stories, No Payback for the Pimp and Another Pimp in Court, that seem to imply that the Armenian government and the General Prosecutor’s Office are not taking the problem as seriously as they should.
